You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Music
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
